Daniel Pollick

Suspending my twitter account, maybe forever. Come to Bluesky it’s a better place. @Saneblade.bsky.social

With the US elections just around the corner, some food for thought about #democracy, #dictatorship and #truth. @billmaher

Come on rob will you read us out if we send you a pic @robstaton

Yasu @robstaton. Daniel and Lindsay listening poolside in Evia, Greece. UTB

Elon Musk pretends to be a champion for free speech. He criticizes the Brazilian judge, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and European policies. But I have yet to see him utter a single word of disapproval on Russia and China, where Twitter is banned.

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Remember when Gary Lineker said the language on immigration from politicians resembles 1930s Germany? Remember the uproar because it was an absurd comparison apparently?

It's so disappointing to see Wednesday shirts amongst the Neanderthals outside the hotel in Manvers that's been set on fire today. A hotel that's housing men, women and children seeking safe refuge in the UK. #swfc #notproud

Wow who made this? They are a genius.

There's no political justification for the disorder we've seen. But if people want to get into the blame game, these are the facts. The Tories were in power for 14 years. Labour have been in power for 4 weeks. Blaming Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper for this is just ridiculous.

Yesterday's riots have woken people up to the scale of the far right challenge. But we’re still getting a lot of things wrong. 1/ The fascists achieved something: they have terrorised Britain’s BAME population. I’ve got people contacting me saying they don’t feel safe…

We need to have some clarity about the causes of the rioting over the past few days. A 🧵about the rioters, the instigators (two fairly distinct groups of people), and the processes leading to the current unrest. 1/21

No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

@DPJHodges If your antipathy towards migrants leads you to incite people to burn down police stations or to sympathise with those who do or to equivocate when asked to condemn those who do, you are far right.

Can we nail this down. If you have concerns about immigration you are not far-right. If your antipathy towards migrants leads you to start burning down police stations, you are far-right. It’s not complicated.

There's a special place in Hell for privately educated multimillionaires who stir up racial tension in working class communities to boost the electoral prospects of their hard right political party

I have legitimate concerns about crime in our country, I feel let down by various state failures, like almost all Brits. To conflate this with rioting thugs being violent to police and setting fire to our streets is total misdirection. Don't fall for it.

I hope the BBC reflect on how their normalisation of Farage during the election helped to enable this, and I hope that Ofcom reflect on how their utter failure to effectively regulate GB News has helped to further fuel the situation.

Who would have thought the UK politicians and the media spending 20 years pushing a conspiracy theory would lead to distrust in politicians? Who thought whipping people up with immigration rhetoric, and promising Brexit was the solution, would lead to trouble later?

A reminder that most trans people are just trying to navigate their way through their lives with as little impact on you as possible